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BREMERTON, Wash. — The body of a child found yesterday near a mobile-home park in Washington
state appears to be that of a 6-year-old girl last seen on Saturday evening and reported missing
when she did not turn up for dinner the following evening, authorities said.

Jenise Wright had gone to bed on Saturday in her family home near Bremerton, on the Kitsap
Peninsula across the Puget Sound from Seattle, and was not seen by family members the next day,
according to the Kitsap County sheriff’s office.

Her parents notified police after she missed Sunday dinner, telling the sheriff’s office that
they had not initially been alarmed because she often would wander the neighborhood alone, checking
in every few hours.

After four days of searching led by local law-enforcement officers, FBI investigators using dogs
found the body in woods near the mobile-home park, sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson said.

The cause of death and a positive identification will come from the coroner’s office, and
results are expected today.

No arrest has been made.

The girl had been living with her parents and six siblings. Two of her older siblings have been
removed from the home since she went missing because authorities found it “prudent,” Wilson
said.

Court records in Washington state show that Jenise’s father, James Wright, was accused of
molesting two young family members in 2000, but the charges were reduced to assault.